Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201100096 - Employee injured when struck by flying tree top

Accident Summary Nr: 201100096 -- Report ID: 0950623 -- Event Date: 07/16/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
111967865	07/19/1996	2411	0	Stenberg Logging Co

Abstract: Employee #1 was a feller for a small logging company, who cut down trees and bucked them into logs. He had just felled a tree that struck a small sapling. The upper portion of the sapling bent over as the tree fell. It then broke off and flew back to where Employee #1 was standing, striking his safety head protection and knocking him to the ground. He was hospitalized for a ruptured disk in his neck.

Keywords: TREE FELLING, TREE, NECK, STRUCK BY, FLYING OBJECT, LOGGING

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	111967865			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Timber cutting and logging occupations

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